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According to Dr. Allan Lansing, medical director of the hospital's heart institute, the stroke may have been the result of the constriction of cerebral blood vessels, possibly weakened by Schroeder's diabetes. Another possibility: an artery to his brain may conceivably have become blocked by a clot that formed on a valve in Schroeder's mechanical heart. By week's end, according to Lansing, Schroeder had made a "brilliant" recovery...
...start things off, with senior Greg Kouvelas waiting in the wings for his chance at steering the much-heralded Multiflex. White has the most experience--he backed up Chuck Colombo (last year's first starter) in three of the first four games. In practice after the fourth, a blood clot swelled up his arm, knocking him out for the rest of the year. White is the flashiest of Harvard's signal-callers, with good speed and a strong arm. At 6-ft., 2-in., 185 lbs., he's got the size. Vecchi is three inches shorter and has never appeared...
...theme is that of the wide-eyed innocent discovering the wonders of the world. She never sounds jaded. Perhaps the most striking quality in her books is their appearance of utter frankness, about her lovers, her family and herself. On Shirley's 50th birthday, her mother developed a clot on her lung; Shirley went down to visit three days later and took mental notes on their conversation for future use. Says she: "I have decided that my next book will be about my parents. I want to get her at this moment so it will be etched...
RECUPERATING. Andrei Sakharov, 62, dissident Soviet physicist and Nobel Peace prizewinning human rights activist; from reportedly successful surgery to remove a blood clot in his leg after an attack of thrombophlebitis, from which he has suffered for several years; in Gorky, where he was exiled four years...
...have been very sick. The cops beat me brutally at a rally called by the democratic youth which had been authorized by Pinochet. You cannot imagine how they hit me, what's more, they shot me in the back which hurt me very badly, causing a blood clot in my kidney. It is very painful on top of all the other internal complications produced by the blows, from which I have not yet recovered...